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Smoove_B wrote:If I remember the history of Far Cry correctly, the idea for the first game was built around an tropical island filled with dinosaurs

Far Cry Primal takes you back to the Stone Age when man was definitely not at the top of the food chain. Danger lurked around every corner during the daytime, and nighttime brought a fresh set of terrors. It is in the untamed land of Oros that you meet Takkar, the sole survivor of an ambush on his hunting group. Now on his own in a treacherous world, Takkar will face massive mammoths, savage sabretooth tigers, hostile bands of rival hunters, and countless other threats as he attempts to re-unite his lost tribe.

Like any good hunter, Takkar carries an extensive set of survival skills, including the ability to craft tools and weapons from the bones of the beasts he slays and the resources he gathers in the wild. These are not only crucial for his own safety against predators (both human and animal), they’re also essential in maintaining the safety of his tribe. Takkar will need to guard his fledgling group carefully to ensure its survival and growth.

Like every Far Cry before it, Far Cry Primal takes place in a massive open world, and Takkar’s adventure will take him through a number of landscapes, ranging from swamps to redwood cedar forests, and when nightfall comes to Oros, fire may be the only thing standing between Takkar and a particularly sharp set of teeth or the jagged tip of a spear. The use of fire is perhaps just as important, if not more important, than the weapons Takkar crafts. In addition to using it for protection at night, he can use it for additional tactical options when assaulting beasts or infiltrating enemy outposts.

It’s these kinds of moments that will generate unique and unexpected experiences – a hallmark of the Far Cry series – for players as they fight to survive alone in the Stone Age wilderness.

Isgrimnur wrote:So it's the spiritual successor of Turk: Dinosaur Hunter...?

Isgrimnur wrote:Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

coopasonic wrote:Sounds kind of like a single player, story-driven version of Ark: Survival Evolved (minus the high tech crap that ARK includes at the high end of the tech tree). I'm in for that.

Blackhawk wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Yes, I knew that, but Turks fighting dinosaurs sounded much more fun.

Grifman wrote:

coopasonic wrote:Sounds kind of like a single player, story-driven version of Ark: Survival Evolved (minus the high tech crap that ARK includes at the high end of the tech tree). I'm in for that.

No animal capture/training which is a big attraction of Ark which is a huge difference, and no Dino's either.

Now on his own in a treacherous world, Takkar will face massive mammoths, savage sabretooth tigers,

Daehawk wrote: give me some AI I can tell what to do and help me out with traps and fighting and foraging.

Far Cry Primal just received its official ESRB rating. The rating itself isn't so high at only Mature, though the synopsis provides some fairly gruesome details of what to expect, and it definitely isn't something you'd want your kids or younger siblings playing. We knew it was going to be violent, but perhaps not quite up to whats being described in the synopsis.

The game will feature blood and gore, intense violence, nudity and sexual content, though the last part won't be explicit, per-se. Based on the setting itself, it makes sense to include all manner of activities that might be conducted by our ancestors, so it's not unexpected. And of course we don't know just how these graphic scenes will be depicted, but they're graphic enough to warrant the rating.

This is an action game in which players assume the role of Takkar, a nomadic hunter trying to reestablish his tribe. From a first-person perspective, players engage in missions that involve tracking/hunting animals, resource-gathering, and combat against rival tribes. Players use arrows, spears, and clubs to kill enemies in frenetic combat. Some sequences require stealth kills in which enemies are stabbed in the head or slashed close-up. One cutscene depicts a character being held in a fire while screaming; another depicts Takkar tapping a hole in another character's skull as the man screams. Some scenes depict corpses in various states of mutilation: heads and torsos on spikes; ears cut off and kept as trophies; headless bodies lying in pools of blood. Certain scenes or camera angles can depict male genitalia under garments or in shadows; some female characters are depicted topless. A handful of scenes depict characters engaged in sexual activity while clothed; grunts and short moans can be heard, though no explicit details are seen.

Far Cry Primal is set to be released on February 23rd 2016 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the PC.

Far Cry Primal is going to feature a language you've probably never heard of in the game, but the best part is that it's going to be based off a real proto-European language dating back to around the Stone Age.

The developers actually went and sought out linguists who specialize in languages from around the stone-age, or proto-European languages. But oddly, what was initially presented to them was seen as too "modern" for the setting they were going for, even though the language likely actually represented spoken words from the time-period they're portraying.

The creative director, Jean-Christophe Guyot, went back to the linguistic experts and asked them to attempt to devolve the language in a logical manner so that it could more easily align with with the overall creative vision they wanted to share with Far Cry Primal. To them, they wanted something even more primitive than the languages spoken during that time-period portrayed.

Guyot told Gamesradar about their journey to linguistic success, moving first from English into their new territory. He said "So that's how we really created the language of the Wenja (the game's main tribe) and we created three variants of it, one for each tribe. The linguists, they're amazing. And they're super excited, because this is a language that has not been spoken for thousands of years. For them, it's their science, it's something that they're super attached to, so they were super enthusiastic."

Despite the previous entry in the franchise supporting cooperative play, developer Jason Paradise confirmed via the Steam forums that Far Cry Primal will not support co-op.

Since the game’s announcement, Ubisoft has been quiet not to reveal any sort of multiplayer elements. According to Paradise, the team made “the difficult choice of focusing our efforts on the single player experience” early on in the development process.

We are focusing entirely on creating the best possible Far Cry experience for our fans. Bringing the Stone Age to life and providing players with a strong gameplay experience based off of the Far Cry legacy meant we had to reinvent our core gameplay loop. This was definitely not a small undertaking.

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Smoove_B wrote:Seem a bit lower than I would have guessed.

Here’s what it is: I’ve played the first three hours of Far Cry Primal, and I’m neither sold on it nor ready to condemn it. The reason I’m feeling conflicted is that much of the allure of its prehistoric premise – to me at least – comes from the idea that it’ll shake up the Far Cry formula in tangible ways. It’s a time and place games haven’t explored much, and that’s intrinsically fascinating. Mammoths, for crying out loud! Prototypical indoeuropean languages! Brutal melee takedowns with rudimentary clubs!

But simultaneously, its mechanics and systems are extremely familiar to anyone who’s been keeping up with the series so far. Or, indeed, anyone who's ever played a Ubisoft open world game. I’m not going to call it a re-skin, because that’d be premature and I’d be glossing over entire systems such as animal taming and owl binoculars that Ubisoft Montreal have built. Instead I’m going to work through the tropes that have come to define the Ubisoft open world game and consider how closely Far Cry Primal adheres to them.

The Ubisoft formula, as I'm calling it, has created some fantastic games in recent years, there's no doubt about that. But it's also in danger of providing diminishing returns with each subsequent time it's deployed. So, how Ubisoft is Far Cry Primal?

jztemple2 wrote:New article: How Ubisoft is Far Cry Primal? Let’s go through the checklist

YellowKing wrote:I'm really torn on this one. I've played through and 100%-ed or nearly 100%ed every Far Cry game. So it's a series I really love.

On the other hand, the Ubisoft formula is starting to wear *very* thin, and I haven't seen anything to convince me that Primal breaks the mold in any meaningful way.

I think I know the answer to that dilemma, and it's "wait until it hits $25," so that's the most likely route I'll go.

jztemple2 wrote:We do have an advantage, in a way. The console versions release a week before the PC version, so we can see some impressions and real reviews. Hopefully GMG will keep that 40% off VIP sale price in effect.